Yogurt on lentil soup spells out the name of one of my favorite DC spots.
my audio signature
This neat little iTunes Signature Maker analyzes your iTunes collection and make a short audio file that expresses your musical taste.
Here’s mine (6.4 MB .wav file). There are a few key things it missed, but that’s randomness for you. As you can hear, I do like me some Arto Lindsay.
Here’s what it says it included in there: Continue reading “my audio signature”
Hands off my pills, Target
I just made a contribution to Planned Parenthood’s photo petition against Target’s refusal to guarantee that their pharmasicts will fill all prescriptions for birth control (inluding emergency contraception.
There are already hundreds of other great pictures in this campaign that was inspired by the fabulous (and still growing) SorryEverybody.com. You can browse them at http://www.saveroe.com/target/photos
What I really love about campigns like this is how expressive individuals can be in a visual medium, and how diverse and creative their presentations are. In the target photos, there are some with pictures of kids, pets, christmas trees, married people, body parts, cartoons, friends, and so on. Each person is really able to send a very personal, and therefore very meaningful message.
They still don’t get it and they never will
How long can progressives continue to support this Democratic Party that still fears taking a stand against what is – at best – our generation’s Vietnam?
Several Democrats joined President Bush yesterday in rebuking [Howard] Dean’s declaration to a San Antonio radio station Monday that “the idea that we’re going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong.”
– Washington Post: Democrats Fear Backlash at Polls for Antiwar Remarks, 12/7/05
And here I was getting all excited about Bush Backlash in the 2006 congressional elections! Nevermind. 🙁
Network-centric reading list
For a work-related project I recently started compiling a reading list for someone looking to learn about network-centric advocacy. I thought I’d post it here and see if you readers have any additions to suggest. (Also, if you’re still trying to figure out what I do for living, read the first one, it’s a quick intro by my boss to what we do consulting on.)
- Top Ten Rules for the Movement in the Age of Connectivity (quick list)
- Movement as Network (web site)
- Network-Centric Thinking: The Internet’s Challenge to Ego-Centric Institutions (article)
- Power to the Edges (report)
- Applying network models to political organizing (article)
- Members Unite! You have nothing to lose but your newsletters and crappy coffee-cup premiums… (article)
- Networks: The Ecology of the Movements (book chapter)
- Smart mobs (blog)
- Many-to-many (blog)
- Network-centric advocacy (my brilliant boss’ blog 😉 )
Also if you’re interested in such things, I have started aggregating blogs on this topic at NetCentric Campaigns.
Opinity is for what now?
Bush fails
My dad is a high-school math teacher so I should be able to figure this one out. On a 4-point scale, not including the incompletes:
1 A- (4) 9 C (2) 12 D (1) 5 F (0) Bush's GPA = 1.2 or D+
Way to go, Bush! I feel so much safer… than an Iraqi. Whenohwhen does the president get held accountable???
[The bipartisan 9/11 commission] issued a “report card” reviewing how the commission’s 41 recommendations have been implemented, and gave the government five failing grades of F…
The government earned 12 barely passing grades of D and nine mid-level grades of C. It received two “incompletes,” and only one top grade, an A-minus in counter-terrorist financing.
– Leaders failing to keep America safe: report – Yahoo! News
Now more than ever, Iraq = Vietnam
Oh. My. God. Thanks to the Facing South blog, which is the kick-ass voice of the progressive south, for publishing this quotation from 1969 of Richard Nixon explaining why the U.S. had to stay in Vietnam to serve the cause of global peace. The parallels to that conflict have been many ever since the begining, but now it’s starting to seem like Bush has copied the play verbatim!
Will we never learn?
Good (god) music
I have come across a couple of really great free music resources online this week. One is a “mixtape” by the hip hop group The Legendary K.O. These are the guys who did the radical “George Doesn’t Care About Black People” song (download MP3) after Hurricane Katrina. I had better luck downloading the “C.I.G.A.C ‘Pre-Season’ Mixtape” from the RappersIKnow.com blog than from the K.O. site.
Me, aggregated
If you are trying to stalk me but getting frustrated with how my stuff is spread out all over the Internet, someone has got just the tool for you! SuprGlu lets me aggregate everything of mine that can be syndicated – all in one public web page. I can’t quite call it “useful” yet, but somone will think of a way to do so, I’m sure.